International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing, Vol. 2, No.
5, October 2012
Developing 3D Game for Android OS: SNAFDROID
Nishant Panwar, Nainesh Vala, Kashyap Rajpal, and Hari Mohan Pandey, Member IACSIT
AbstractWe are developing an ANDROID game
SNAFDROID with 3-D Graphics that will make the game
playing more interesting. The SNAKE game is a well-known
and a popular game, giving it a third dimension will make it
more intuitive and informative. Giving an option of various
environments and train this game can become a legend and will
attract various users. Apart from Google Apps developers and
vendors are predicted to be the major beneficiaries, since they
would make most out of the Android with its wider market
structure backed by all the members of OHA, developing
different versions of Android, and driving the Androids apps
market to a new edge, defeating all the others. Thus, making a
SNAKE game (SNAFDROID) with 3D graphics and that too for
an upcoming technology like ANDROID will definitely boost
the Game playing world of ANDROID OS to a new level of
entertainment and fun.
Index TermsAndroid, 2D graphics, blender etc.
I. INTRODUCTION
The term Android has its origin in the Greek word andr-,
meaning man or male and the suffix eides, used to mean
alike or of the species. This together means as much as
being human. Android is a software platform and operating
system for mobile devices, based on the Linux operating
system and developed by Google and later the Open Handset
Alliance [8] [9]. It allows developers to write managed code
in a Java-like language that utilizes Google developed Java
libraries, but does not support programs developed in native
code. Android is just an OS, it requires hardware to run on.
Android is hailed as the first complete, open, and free
mobile platform. Android offers a full stack: an operating
system, middleware, and key mobile applications [8]. It also
contains a rich set of APIs that allows third-party developers
to develop great applications. Google released most of the
Android code under the Apache License, a free software and
open source license.
Android does not differentiate between the phone's core
applications and third-party applications. They can all be
built to have equal access to a phone's capabilities providing
users with a broad spectrum of applications and services.
With devices built on the Android Platform, users are able to
fully tailor the phone to their interests. Android breaks down
the barriers to building new and innovative applications.
Android provides access to a wide range of useful libraries
and tools that can be used to build rich applications. In
addition, Android includes a full set of tools that have been
Manuscript received June 12, 2012; revised August 31, 2012.
Hari Mohan Pandey is with faculty Department of Computing of the
Middle East College, Muscat, Oman (e-mail:hari04top@yahoo.co.in)
Nishant Panwar, Nainesh Vala, and Kashyap Rajpal are with Accenture
India (e-mail-nishant_panwar23@yahoo.com; naineshvala@gmail.com;
kashyaprajpal@yahoo.co.in)
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built from the ground up alongside the platform providing
developers with high productivity and deep insight into their
applications.
This first worldwide mobile network was introduced by
the USA in 1946 and could only be used nationally at that
time, mostly for military purposes. Not until the end of the
1950s was this technique replaced by the Analog network
(A-network). Then in 1973, Motorola presented a prototype
of the world first cellular telephone. It was about one foot
long, weight almost 2 pounds and cost $3995. This cell phone
which became commercially available in 1983 provided one
hour of talk time and could store 30 phone numbers. In only
one year 300, 00 people, worldwide, were owners,
considering price, this was remarkable market growth.
TABLE I: HISTORY OF ANDROID
Year Description
2005 Google acquired Android, Inc., a small company that developed
software for mobile phones. Android, Inc. team started
working on a Linux-based OS for mobile devices.
2006 Media and press was filled with news about Google entering the
mobile market
2007 November 2007, the Open Handset Alliance & mobile operators
started working together to develop handsets and services that
leverage the new software.
2009 Sing Tel & HTC Corp. unveiled the first Android powered
mobile phone The HTC Dream.
In the nutshell changes of the hardware related mostly to
improvement in weight, price and look. The operating system
was improved by e.g. games, calendar applications, email
and other functionalities to use the internet. This
development underlines clearly what a cell phone needs
today. It must be as small as possible, it has to be stylish
and it has to cover a wide range of functions especially
internet connection which is used by many people in the
world every day. Android has emerged as one such operating
system [9] which provide most of such demanded features.
II. ARCHITECTURE AND FEATURES
The Android platform is designed to be more fault-tolerant
than many of its predecessors. The handset runs a Linux
operating system, upon which Android applications are
executed in a secure fashion. Each Android application runs
in its own virtual machine. Android applications are managed
code; therefore, they are much less likely to cause the phone
to crash, leading to fewer instances of device corruption.
Blender is a free 3D graphics application that can be used
for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, water and
smoke simulations, skinning, animating, rendering, particle
and other simulations, non-linear editing, compositing, and
creating interactive 3D applications, including video games,
animated film, or visual effects [1][2]. Blender's features
include advanced simulation tools such as rigid, realistic
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body, fluid, cloth and soft body dynamics, modifier-based
modeling tools, powerful character animation tools, a
node-based material and compositing system and Python for
embedded scripting [3]. Released as free software under the
GNU General Public License, Blender is available for a
number of operating systems, including GNU/Linux [9], Mac
OS X, and Microsoft Windows [3] [4].
Fig. 1. Major components of the Android operating system
Through its open architecture, Blender provides
cross-platform interoperability, extensibility, an incredibly
small footprint, and a tightly integrated workflow [10].
Blender is one of the most popular Open Source 3D graphics
applications in the world. Aimed world-wide at media
professionals and artists, Blender can be used to create 3D
visualizations, stills as well as broadcast and cinema quality
videos, while the incorporation of a real-time 3D engine
allows for the creation of 3D interactive content for
stand-alone playback. Originally developed by the company
Not a Number (NaN), Blender continues to be developed
as Free Software, with the source code available under the
GNU GPL license. Development is now conducted under the
leadership of the Blender Foundation in the Netherlands.
Blender has a relatively small installation size and runs on
several popular computing platforms, including LINUX,
Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows, along with FreeBSD,
IRIX, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Solaris [1][2][3]. Among its
capabilities are:
a) Support for a variety of geometric primitives, including
polygon meshes, fast subdivision surface modeling,
Bezier curves, NURBS surfaces, metaballs, digital
sculpting, and outline fonts.
b) Versatile internal rendering capabilities and integration
with YafaRay, a Free Software ray tracer.
c) Key framed animation tools including inverse kinematics,
armature (skeletal), hook, curve and lattice-based
deformations, shape keys (morphing), non-linear
animation, constraints, vertex weighting, soft body
dynamics including mesh collision detection, LBM fluid
dynamics, Bullet rigid body dynamics, particle-based hair,
and a particle system with collision detection.
d) Modifiers to apply non-destructive effects.
e) Python scripts for tool creation and prototyping, game
logic, importing and exporting from other formats such as
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OBJ, FBX, DXF, COLLADA, task automation and
custom tools.
f) Basic non-linear video/audio editing and compositing
capabilities.
III. PROBLEM DEFINITION
In this paper authors have given the idea of develop a 3D
game for Android OS. The game which is being developed
covers the following things:
Provide an interactive and intuitive environment for
ANDROID users who are passionate about playing
games.
We are here to develop a 3D game for Android OS.
3D Game proposed is SNAKE GAME: SNAFDROID
The mobile screen will be 2D but the graphics used are
3D providing a more informative and interesting
environment
IV. PEREVIOUS WORKS
In 1982 the Finnish handset maker Nokia introduced its
first Mobile phone, Mobira Senator. This device looked
very much like a portable radio and weight 21 pounds. The
first cell phone with PDA features was introduced in 1993 by
Bell South/IBM. It included phone and pager functionalities,
calculator and calendar applications as well as fax and e-mail
capability. The weight was about 18 pounds and it sold for
$900. Motorolas StarTac, in 1996, merged fashion and
functionality. Its weight was about 3.1 pounds which is
lighter than some of todays cell phones. Kyocera introduces
its QCP6035 mobile phone in year 2000. It was the first
widely available Palm OS based phone.
In 2002 the Danger Hip top, later known as the T-Mobile
Sidekick, was introduced. It was one of the first mobile
devices to include a Web browser, reliable e-mail access and
instant messaging. With the RAZRv3 Motorola again came
back and started a trend towards ultra-thin, stylish phones. It
was the first mobile device which many people from high
scholars to businessmen wanted to have, primarily, because
of its style and because it was fashionably. It is still one of the
most popular mobile phones today. The last very impressing
innovation was presented by Apple with the release of the
iPhone in 2007, a beautifully designed cell phone that
includes an innovative touch screen navigation interface.
V. APPROACH USED
In this section we are presenting the track of implementing
the system for the 3D game for Android.
A. Algorithm Used and Implemented
Algorithm 1: Implementation of SNAFDROID
S1 Loading of game and checking of availability of
resources.
S2 Loading of game engine.
S3 Display the menu.
S4 If selected option equals START GAME
S5 Then display Menu for selection of environment
S6 If selected option is OPTIONS
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S7 Then display Menu for changing controls/sounds
etc.
S8 If selected option is Exit
S9 Exit the game and free resources.
After the initial loading of game and resources the game
engine is loaded. The game engine starts with a startup screen
which displays the logo and a moving snake. A menu is
displayed afterwards. The menu has various options like
START Game etc. If start game option is selected then a
menu is displayed which consists of option regarding
selection of terrain in which the user wants to play. The
commencement of game takes place henceforth. Selecting
EXIT button free all resources and exit the game.
B. Use-Case Diagram
Figure 2 shows the use case diagram of our game. This
diagram consists of actor, use cases and interface. There is
one actor i.e. user. The ellipses represent use cases and lines
shows relationship between actor and use cases.
C. Sequence Diagram
Figure 3 shows the sequence diagram for the present work.
Sequence diagram is a kind of interaction diagram. It shows
an interaction, consisting of a set of object or roles, including
the messages that may be dispatched among them. It
addresses the dynamic view of a system. It emphasizes the
time ordering of messages.
D. Class Diagram
A class diagram shows a set of classes, interfaces and
collaboration and their relationships. Figure 3 represents
class diagram. It consists of 5 packages, 8 classes and 3
interfaces. Here ScakeGameActivity is the main class that
simulates and triggers various operations.

Fig. 2. Use-case diagram

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Fig.3. Sequence diagram

Fig. 4. Class diagram for SNAFDROID

of system requirements: minimum and recommended. With

VI. EXPERIMENTAL SETUP
To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain
hardware components or other software resources to be
present on a computer. These pre-requisites are known as
system requirements and are often used as a guideline as
opposed to an absolute rule. Most software defines two sets
increasing demand for higher processing power and
resources in newer version of software, system requirements
tend to increase over time. Industry analysts suggest that this
trend plays a bigger part in driving upgrades to existing
computer systems than technological advancements. The
chief hardware and software requirement for the present

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work is shown in the Table II.

TABLE II: HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

Category Tools
1. Hardware requirements of the system on which
application is developed
a) Min 4 GB RAM
b) Min 1 GB space on HDD
c) Graphics Card
d) Min 512 MB
Hardware
e) NVIDIA/ATI
f) Processor Core 2 Duo with 2.2 GHz
2. Hardware Requirements of the system on which
application is intended to run
a) Mobile phone compatible with Android OS

1. Software required on which application is developed.

a) Android SDK (Ver. 2.2 and above, API Level 8 and above)
b) Java 1.5 and above
c) OS: Windows (XP/Vista/7) Fig. 6. Snake Head Rendered
Software d) Eclipse IDE
e) BLENDER-graphic design tool
2. Software on which application is intended to run

a) Android OS

A. Results
In this paper authors have given an Android game
SNAFDROID, consists of two modules: Graphics
Development module and Coding.
As far as this project is concerned we have completed the
software requirement and specification and we are
developing graphics for our 3D game. These graphics require
high system specifications. We are using blender, a graphics
development tool using which we have developed various
graphics that will be used in our game. The graphics require Fig. 7. Maze environment
exhaustive rendering power of the rendering engine being
used by the graphics development tool. Some of the
screenshots of the graphics developed for the present project
are shown in the figures 5, 6, 7, 8 below:

Fig. 8. Snow desert environment

VII. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE ENHANCEMENT

Android has come a long way since its inception three
years ago. It will surely impact the mobile market when the
Fig. 5. Snake head development in blender Android phones are released, but also provides an excellent
opportunity for developers to enter the mobile market. A

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great deal can be learned by both creating applications using Nainesh Vala was born in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India on
December 19, 1989. He completed his schooling from
Android's unique Java API as well as attempting to port Mumbai in 2007. In 2011 he received his B. Tech. degree
Android to real hardware [10]. The classroom cans befit from in computer science from Mukesh Patel School of
Android, given the amount of resources available for Technology Management and Engineering (Shirpur
reference. Campus), NMIMS University, Mumbai, Maharashtra,
India.
The market trends toward the mobile market and future
developments can be greatly benefited by using Android to Kashyap Rajpal born in city of lakes, Udaipur (Raj.),
improve their algorithms and resource management. Since it India on April 1, 1990 completed his higher education
from Central Academy School, Udaipur. In 2011 he
is open source, there is no cost to learn. Android is a win-win received his B.Tech. degree in computer science from
situation for both the community and developers. Android Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management and
will be bigger in terms of pure numbers (reach) than the Engineering (Shirpur Campus), NMIMS University,
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Kashyaps major field of
iPhone OS. study is development of various JAVA applications and
new trends in mobile industry.
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Engineering (Shirpur Campus), NMIMS University,
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